Item Description: Floating World Editions, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2005. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. McGinnis, Mark W. ( SIGNED ) (illustrator). First Printing of the First Edition. Fine but for prev. owner insc. on front endpaper, in fine jacket. Signed by mcGinnis on the title page. Signed by Artist. Bookseller Inventory # 11306

Item Description: John Murray, London, 1961. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 111pp. with red cloth boards with gilt titles, dustwrapper. The contents are in very good condition with a bit of foxing to the page edges. The author's inscription appears on the front endpaper. The binding is tight. The covers are good overall, but they are a little grubby and there is a 1cm closed tear to the front bottom edge of the dustwrapper. This is a book of collected essays and exchanges between Leonard Elmhirst, the founder of Dartington Hall in Devonshire, and the Indian poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). Their lifelong association began when Tagore contacted Elmhirst in 1921 to help him found an Institute of Rural Reconstruction in Bengal. This book documents these events, along with their friendship and shared ideas on education, arts, agriculture and traditional ways of life. The inscription in the front of the book was made by Elmhirst himself and shows that he gifted the book to Sir John Stafford Cripps (1912-1993). Cripps was the son of Sir Richard Stafford Cripps (1889-1952), a British Labour politician who in the Second World War served as Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Minister of Aircraft Production. After the war he was appointed President of the Board of Trade and between 1947 and 1950 he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Inscribed by Author(s). Bookseller Inventory # 3061

Item Description: The Macmillan Company, NEW YORK, 1926. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Later Edition. A rare signed copy: signed by the author on the front free end page. This is a later printing. U.S. edition. 1926 (first published in 1914) A well-kept copy. Text clean, binding solid. Very good copy indeed. No Dust Jacket. Signed by Author(s). Book. Bookseller Inventory # 503892

Item Description: The Macmillan Company, NEW YORK, 1926. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Later Edition. A rare signed copy: signed by the author on the front free end page. This is a later printing. U.S. edition. 1926 (first published in 1914) A well-kept copy. Text clean, binding solid. Very good copy indeed. No Dust Jacket. Signed by Author(s). Bookseller Inventory # 503892

Item Description: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Special Edition. 8vo., dark green cloth lettered in gilt with an ornate cover design in black; slightly soiled. Bolpur edition, published in October 1916, with a 15-page introduction by W. B. Yeats (not recorded in Wade). This copy signed by Tagore on the front free endpaper. A gorgeous copy rarely found signed. Signed by Author(s). Bookseller Inventory # ABE-16192026551